PALMQUIST LAB
Plant Ecology at Marshall University
In Review
Holdrege, M., D.R. Schlaepfer, K.A. Palmquist, W.K. Lauenroth, C.S. Boyd, M.K. Creutzburg, M.R. Crist, K.E. Doherty, T.E. Remington, J.C. Tull, L.A. Wiechman & J.B. Bradford. Climate change promotes declines in sagebrush habitat quality. Rangeland Ecology and Management (organized special issue).
2014
Peet, R.K., K.A. Palmquist & S.M. Tessel. Herbaceous layer species richness of southeastern forests and woodlands: patterns and causes. In: F.S. Gilliam and M.R. Roberts, eds. The herbaceous layer in forests of Eastern North America, Chapter 10, Second edition. Oxford University Press, New York, New York. Pages 255-276.
2021
Smith, A.J.*, D.R. Schlaepfer, K.A. Palmquist, I.C. Burke & W.K. Lauenroth. Allometric modeling of bunchgrasses in big sagebrush plant communities. Rangeland Ecology and Management 79: 77-86.
2018
Rottler, C.M.*, I.C. Burke, K.A. Palmquist, J.B. Bradford & W.K. Lauenroth. Reclamation after oil and gas development does not speed up succession or plant community recovery in big sagebrush ecosystems in Wyoming. Restoration Ecology 26: 114-123.
2014
Coyle, J.R.†, F.W. Halliday, B.E. Lopez, K.A. Palmquist, P.A. Wilfahrt & A.H. Hurlbert. Using trait and phylogenetic diversity to evaluate the generality of the stress-dominance hypothesis in eastern North American tree communities. Ecography 37: 1-13. Editor's choice.
2014
Palmquist, K.A., R.K. Peet & A.S. Weakley. Reduced fire frequency and long-term drought drive species loss in one of the most species-rich longleaf pine savannas in the United States. Journal of Vegetation Science 25:1426-1437.
2020
Bradford, J.B., D.R. Schlaepfer, W.K. Lauenroth & K.A. Palmquist. Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century. Global Change Biology 26(7): 3906-3919.
Palmquist, K.A., R. K. Peet & S.C. Carr. Xeric Longleaf Pine Vegetation of the Atlantic and East Gulf Coastal Plain: an Evaluation and Revision of Associations within the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. Proceedings of the US National Vegetation Classification 1(1): 1-70.
2024
Holdrege, M.C., D.R. Schlaepfer, K.A. Palmquist, M. Crist, K.E. Doherty, W.K. Lauenroth, T.E. Remington, K. Riley, K.C. Short, J.C. Tull, L.A. Wiechman & J.B. Bradford. Wildfire probability estimated from mean annual climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region. Fire Ecology 20: 22.
2023
Fridley, J.D.† & K.A. Palmquist†. Herbaceous Vegetation, Species Richness in. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 3rd edition, Volume 2: 711-718(invited contribution).
2016
Palmquist, K.A., D.R. Schlaepfer, J.B. Bradford & W.K. Lauenroth. Spatial and ecological variation in dryland ecohydrological responses to climate change: implications for management. Ecosphere 7(11): e01590.
2016
Tessel, S.M., K.A. Palmquist & R.K. Peet. Species-Area Relationships. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology. Ed. David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press.
2023
Holdrege, M.C.*, A. Kulmatiski, K.H. Beard & K.A. Palmquist. Greater precipitation intensity increases shrub growth in arid, not mesic, ecosystems. Ecosystems 26: 568-584.
2017
Pennington, V.E.*, K.A. Palmquist, J.B. Bradford & W.K. Lauenroth. Climate and soil texture influence patterns of forb species richness and composition in big sagebrush plant communities across their spatial extent in the western US. Plant Ecology 218: 957-970.
2021
Palmquist, K.A., D.R. Schlaepfer, R.R. Renne, S.C. Torbit, K.E. Doherty, T.E. Remington, G. Watson, J.B. Bradford & W.K. Lauenroth. Divergent climate change effects on widespread dryland plant communities driven by climatic and ecohydrological gradients. Global Change Biology 27: 5169-5185.
2019
Bradford, J.B., D.R. Schlaepfer, W.K. Lauenroth, K.A. Palmquist, J.C. Chambers, J.D. Maestas & S.B. Campbell. Climate-driven shifts in soil temperature and moisture regimes suggest opportunities to enhance assessments of dryland resilience and resistance. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 358 (invited paper).
2019
Renne, R.R.*, D.R. Schlaepfer, K.A. Palmquist, J.B. Bradford, I.C. Burke & W.K. Lauenroth. Soil and stand characteristics explain patterns of shrub mortality following global change type-drought and extreme precipitation. Ecology 100(12): e02889.
2018
Reeves, M.C., M.E. Manning, J.P. DiBenedetto, K.A. Palmquist, W.K. Lauenroth, J.B. Bradford, & D.R. Schlaepfer. 2017. Chapter 7: Effects of climate change on rangeland vegetation in the Northern Rockies mountains. Pgs 97-114. In: Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Dante-Wood, S.K.; Hoang, L.; Ho, J.J.; Joyce, L.A., editors. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
2018
Palmquist, K.A., J.B. Bradford, T.E. Martyn*, D.R. Schlaepfer & W.K. Lauenroth. STEPWAT2: an individual-based model for exploring the impact of climate and disturbance on dryland plant communities. Ecosphere 9 (8): e02394.
2016
Palmquist, K.A., D.R. Schlaepfer, J.B. Bradford & W.K. Lauenroth. Mid-latitude shrub steppe plant communities: Climate change consequences for soil water resources. Ecology 97(9): 2342-2354.
PUBLICATIONS
2018
Peet, R.K., K.A. Palmquist, T.R. Wentworth, M.P. Schafale, A.S. Weakley & M.T. Lee. Carolina Vegetation Survey: an initiative to improve regional implementation of the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. Phytocoenologia 48(2): 171-179 (invited paper).
2015
Palmquist, K.A., R.K. Peet & S.R. Mitchell. Scale-dependent responses of longleaf pine vegetation to fire frequency and environmental context across two decades. Journal of Ecology 103: 998-1008.
2022
Jordan S.E.*, K.A. Palmquist, I.G. Burke & W.K. Lauenroth. Small effects of livestock grazing intensification on diversity, abundance, and composition perennial in a dryland plant community. Ecological Applications, e2693.
2016
Lopez, B.E., K.R. Burgio, M.B. Carlucci, K.A. Palmquist, A. Parada, V.P. Weinberger & A.H. Hurlbert. A new framework for inferring community assembly processes using phylogenetic information, relevant traits and environmental gradients. One Ecosystem 1: 1-24.
2023
Martyn, T.E.*, K.A. Palmquist, J.B. Bradford, D.R. Schlaepfer & W.K. Lauenroth. Plant community predictions support the potential for big sagebrush range expansion adjacent to the leading edge. Regional Environmental Change 23: 27.
2024
Renne, R.R.*, D.R. Schlaepfer, K.A. Palmquist, W.K. Lauenroth & J.B. Bradford. Estimating complex ecological variables at high resolution in heterogeneous terrain using a multivariate matching algorithm. Ecosphere 15: e4811.
2015
Mitchell, S.R.,K.A. Palmquist, S. Cohen & N.L. Christensen. Patterns of vegetation composition and diversity in pine-dominated ecosystems of the lower Coastal Plain of North Carolina: Implications for ecosystem restoration. Forest Ecology and Management 356: 64-73.
2020
Jordan, S.E.*, K.A. Palmquist, J.B. Bradford & W.K. Lauenroth. Soil water availability shapes species richness in mid-latitude shrub steppe plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 31(4): 646-657.
2015
Martyn, T.*, C.W. Beltz*, K.A. Palmquist, V.E. Pennington*, C.M. Rottler* & W.K. Lauenroth. Daubenmire versus line-point intercept: a response to Thacker et al (2015). Rangelands 37(4): 158-160.
2022
Saladyga, T.†, K.A. Palmquist† & C. Bacon§. Fire history and vegetation data reveal ecological benefits of recent high-severity fires in the Cumberland Mountains, West Virginia, USA. Fire Ecology 18: 1-21.
† authors contributed equally * graduate student author § undergraduate student author
2016
Pennington, V.E.*, J.B. Bradford, D.R. Schlaepfer, J.L. Beck, K.A. Palmquist & W.K. Lauenroth. Sagebrush, greater sage-grouse, and the occurrence and importance of forbs. Western North American Naturalist 76(3): 298-312.
2019
Lindquist, L.W.§,K.A. Palmquist, S.E. Jordan* & W.K. Lauenroth. Impacts of climate change on groundwater recharge in Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems are contingent on elevation. Western North American Naturalist 79 (1): 4.
2019
Pennington, V.E.*, J.B. Bradford, K.A. Palmquist & W.K. Lauenroth. Patterns of big sagebrush community composition and stand structure in the Western US. Rangeland Ecology and Management 72 (3): 505-514.